{"id":145766,"date":"2015-08-24T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=145766"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:04:53","slug":"i-did-law-because-i-couldnt-find-rich-gospel-musicians-ace-ankomah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=145766","title":{"rendered":"I did law because I couldn\u2019t find rich gospel musicians &#8211; Ace Ankomah [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You probably know him for his legal exploits but lawyer Ace Ankomah on his other side is a good music writer and a guitarist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is an arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration,\u00a0a former law lecturer at the University of Ghana and an astute private legal practitioner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though he has greatly excelled in his field as a lawyer, Ace Ankomah said he\u00a0became a lawyer because he could not find any rich gospel musician when he was in the university.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI weighed the two: when I got to my first year at Legon, I looked at law and looked at music; I didn\u2019t find any rich gospel musician so I focused on law. This was in 1987,\u201d Ace told the host of the Saturday Live entertainment show on <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He subsequently \u00a0decided to keep music as a passion and law as a profession.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you have heard the song \u201cBarima Yesu\u201d by Joyful Ways Incorporated, then you should know that it was written by Ace and his wife, Josephine Annan-Ankomah who was the lead vocalist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Click below to watch video of Ace Ankomah showing his skills on the strings\u00a0with\u00a0the Waakye Band and award winning artiste,\u00a0Okyeame Kwame in the studios of <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nm9wgK64Y9g\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Video by Godwin A. Allotey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know him for his legal exploits but lawyer Ace Ankomah on his other side is a good music writer and a guitarist. He is an arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration,\u00a0a former law lecturer at the University of Ghana and an astute private legal practitioner. Though he has greatly excelled in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":145768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[38,6,17],"class_list":["post-145766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}